Mark Karimov Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Developed a new vision and strategy for a B2B SaaS product Atajo (https://atajo.io) in the Field Services space. Designed, co-developed and brought it to market, currently managing its growth phase.
• Took the product from R720k ARR to R5m ARR.
• The product's top customer is using the app to upgrade its facilities in 18,000 locations around the world
• Managing a remote team of 7 software engineers, developing solutions for customers in healthcare, logistics, mining, retail and services
• Engaging with clients and internal stakeholders, defining a roadmap, prioritizing the backlog, change requests and new initiatives, coordinating activities between cross-functional teams in a 1000+ people company

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Took personal time off to volunteer at a non-profit coffee shop to brew specialty coffee for local community and donate proceeds to charities.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Led Software Engineering and Product teams to build custom high-quality solutions for major banks, insurers and other financial organizations
• Managed product development of AI data recognition platform Glance (https://www.glancesoftware.co/)
• Delivered to market 15+ web and mobile products

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Led a remote Software Engineering team of 5 to build a cloud-based mobile app for events
• The app is now supporting events for Dell, HP, Uber, Google and other leading brands

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Founded the company and raised R1.4m in funding from VC and Angel investors
• Grew the platform to 500,000 users worldwide, being featured in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times
• Collaborated with Hertz, Samsung, South African Airways and Lufthansa to run their marketing campaigns and sponsor unique trips
• Developed and managed a crowdfunding platform for anti-poaching of rhinos, which raised US$500,000 from 2,500 contributors to relocate 10 rhinos from SA to Botswana

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Founded the e-commerce company, raised seed funding and participated in a start-up accelerator program
• Learned the essentials of running a start-up, including fundraising, networking, financials, strategies

• Analysed business requests and needs, translated them into achievable goals and strategies
• Led the development of core business SMS & MMS messaging platform as well as internal CMS
• The platform processed over 114 million MMS messages in 2 years, generating over US$4m in revenue

• Worked on creating IPTV and mobile TV solutions
• Led the development of internet communities for "XN Network" (Sweden)